(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna

11 tracks
Side one "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" "Occapella" "Oo-Wee" "Husbands and Wives" "Snookeroo" Side two "All by Myself" "Call Me" "No No Song" "Only You (And You Alone)" "Easy for Me" "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)"

"(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna", an up-tempo John Lennon composition, is the title track to Ringo Starr's 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. The final song on the album is "Goodnight Vienna (reprise)". Also released as a single, the single version is a medley combination of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" and "Goodnight Vienna (reprise)". The single was released in the US on 2 June 1975.^{[nb 1]}^[1]

The title song features John Lennon on opening count-in and piano, and Billy Preston on clavinet; and the Reprise song features Lennon's intro, 'OK, with gusto, boys, with gusto!'.

Composition and Lyrics

The composition was the second of five Lennon songs to be offered for inclusion on Starr's solo albums, (the others being "I'm the Greatest" from Ringo, "Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love)" from Ringo's Rotogravure, and two unreleased songs intended for Stop and Smell the Roses).

The term "Goodnight Vienna" is English slang meaning "it's all over".

References

Footnotes

↑ US Apple 1882^[1]

Citations

1 2 Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 183. ISBN 9780753508435.

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1970s

1970	"Beaucoups of Blues" / "Coochy Coochy"

1971	"It Don't Come Easy" / "Early 1970"

1972	"Back Off Boogaloo" / "Blindman"

1973	"Photograph" / "Down and Out" "You're Sixteen"

1974	"Oh My My" "Only You (And You Alone)"

1975	"No No Song" / "Snookeroo" "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna"

1976	"Oh My My" / "No No Song" "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" "You Don't Know Me at All" (Europe; except UK) "Hey! Baby" "Las Brisas" (Mexico)

1977	"Wings" "Drowning in the Sea of Love" "Sneaking Sally Through the Alley" (Australia)

1978	"Tango All Night" (Spain) "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" "Heart on My Sleeve" "Tonight"

1980s

1981	"Wrack My Brain"

1982	"Private Property"

1983	"In My Car" (Germany)

1984	"I Keep Forgettin'" (Mexico)

1985	"Sun City" (with Artists United Against Apartheid)

1986	"You Know It Makes Sense"

1989	"Act Naturally" (with Buck Owens)

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1991	"You Never Know" (promo)

1992	"Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go" "Weight of the World"

1998	"La De Da" "King of Broken Hearts" (promo) "One" (promo) "Mr. Double-It-Up" (promo)

1999	"Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On" (promo)

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2003	"Never Without You" "Imagine Me There" (promo)

2005	"Fading In Fading Out" (promo)

2007	"Liverpool 8"

2009	"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" (with Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band) "Walk with You" (with Paul McCartney)

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2012	"Wings"

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